Product Owner Servant Leadership
Being both a Servant and a Leader Is Not Just for the Scrum Master
Excerpts from AgilePK meet up on November 22, 2020
Scrum Guide 2020
–The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team.
–Accountable for effective Product Backlog management
•Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal;
•Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items;
•Ordering Product Backlog items; and,
•Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
–The Product Owner may do the above work or may delegate the responsibility to others. Regardless, the Product Owner remains accountable.
–For Product Owners to succeed, the entire organization must respect their decisions. These decisions are visible in the content and ordering of the Product Backlog, and through the inspectable Increment at the Sprint Review.
–The Product Owner is one person, not a committee. The Product Owner may represent the needs of many stakeholders in the Product Backlog. Those wanting to change the Product Backlog can do so by trying to convince the Product Owner.
•Product Owner
–A Product Owner orders the work for a complex problem into a Product Backlog.
–The Product Owner ensures that attendees are prepared to discuss the most
important Product Backlog items and how they map to the Product Goal.
•Sprint Planning – Topic One: Why is this Sprint valuable?
–The Product Owner proposes how the product could increase its value and utility in the current Sprint. The whole Scrum Team then collaborates to define a Sprint Goal that communicates why the Sprint is valuable to stakeholders. The Sprint Goal must be finalized prior to the end of Sprint Planning.
Excerpts from AgilePK meet up on November 22, 2020
